Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ŠPELA PETRIČ, relaying between humans and plants
A basic belief, embedded in many, if not all, Western religions and philosophies, is that human beings are central to the world. It is…
Digital Culture, News, Scout & Trends
Exhibition: Allan Gardner WIP at RCA
Allan Gardner is a Scottish artist and writer, currently contributing in our publication. Last weekend he was presenting some of his artworks at the…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Editor’s pick: ‘Horror Vacui’ by MATTEO ZAMAGNI
Matteo Zamagni is an Italian born new media artist, currently living and working in London. Through the use of emerging technologies, Zamagni creates audiovisual…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MAX HATTLER, audiovisual abstraction in the moving image
Whatever a writer may write of Max Hattler, it will be futile. Max Hattler is something you live. Feel. Experience. Max Hattler is an…
Digital Couture, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MARIA CASTELLANOS, deconstructing what counts as a human
Maria Castellanos is an artist and researcher exploring relationships between body and technology in a number of significant art&science projects. Her artistic practice is…
Biomedia, Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
LEONI FISCHER, visualising the cyclic rhythms of Euglena
“Euglena, a genus of more than 1,000 species of single-celled flagellated (i.e., having a whiplike appendage) microorganisms that feature both plant and animal characteristics. Found…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
TH3MAX, and the aestheticization of pain
In the world of all kinds of alienations, in the world of spectacles, where “everything that was directly lived is now merely represented in…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ALICE POTTS, ways to use sweat to create accessories
In the past couple of years the discipline of material innovation has seen an increasing number of interdisciplinary collaborations which are producing new exciting…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ANTOINE CATALA, using complex technology to articulate human emotions
Perusing Antoine Catala’s website you gain a sense of his slightly tongue in cheek approach to digital media. Browsing his site is a process analogous…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
ANDREA TAEGGI, the sculptural potential of the sonic
Andrea Taeggi, the Italian-born and Berlin-based music producer, often categorized under the labels of experimental ambient, techno or minimalist, through his practice explores the…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
CHRISTINA HAXHOLM, exploring ideological forecasts for the future
Over the last couple of years, the fashion and textile industry has taken a great interest in the new possibilities that the biotechnology industry is…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
THOMAS ANKERSMIT, exploring psychoacoustic properties of sound
Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and composer based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Working primarily through sound and installation, he produces complex and incredibly physical…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
WASSYL ABDOUN-TAMZALI, breaking cultural barriers with sound art
Wassyl Abdoun-Tamzali is the co-founder and artistic director of Phonetics festival, an itinerant music, art and technological festival. Born in Paris in 1987, he…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
MARIA W HORN, invoking the alternate
For the most part, time and space have been conceptualized in terms of their mathematical properties, like dimensions. The two are also the foundation…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
IPEK GORGUN, the sensibility of discerning humanness through sound
We have witnessed an increasing intersection of practices in the last couple of years and the music industry presents no exception to this phenomenon….
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
STUART HYATT, documenting the poetic sounds of planet Earth
A soundscape is a collaboration between biotic and abiotic elements in a landscape: wind slicing through tree branches, river water churning through a floodgate,…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
VIRAJ JOSHI, ‘AirWire’: coding and hand gesture
“We often find the world of coding and electronics abstract and inaccessible.” This is a statement I am sure many would agree with. Even to…
Biomedia, Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
KLARA RAVAT, uniting the olfactory sensorial experience and cognition
Unlike other animals, humans have evolved to rely mostly on our sense of vision. Still, the sense of smell remained one of the most…
Event: TFT’s BLK PWDRS album launch at The Glove that Fits
This Thursday 27 September our digital producer Stephen MacLaughlin is launching a new solo musical project, TFT, with an evening of noisy dancefloor electronics to…
Architectures, Design, News, Scout & Trends
Talk: ‘Blending the Digital and the Material: current trends in fashion, design and material innovation’ Soho House BCN
In 1995, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that “being digital” would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world he was…